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| September 21, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From University Wire)

Byline: Sean Wardwell

Texas State Unviersity fills all the semantic requirements of a university. There are classes and students. There's an athletics program that keeps getting stronger, even if we lose a few games. If you look around this place, it seems to be an honest-to-God college. Yet there's something missing and I can't place my finger on it. Sometimes it feels like we aren't trying hard enough to build our own distinctive identity and at other times it seems we are trying too hard.

What is Texas State? This school has sat on this hill for more than 100 years and it still seems like we are struggling to find an…

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